Word: affords
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...into the school's washing machine. The violence stalking the land of one-child families is not confined to the lower grades. In April, a college student named Ma Jiajue hacked four classmates to death after an all-night poker game. Ma said he was "too poor to afford shoes" and killed from jealousy...
...million people next year, the World Food Program warned last week, despite the best harvest in 10 years. Economic reforms have cut subsidies to households and factories while millions remain out of work. With inflation running at more than 100%, even many people with government salaries can't afford rice...
...most important thing is to make sure we have enough to do things the class wants to do and to make sure that everyone in the class can afford it,” he said...
Hollings: I'm a trial lawyer. I made enough money in 20 years as a trial lawyer to afford [working in] this Senate. And I was enthused because, good God, you had a better class of life here. You could make the final argument to the jury and then go in the jury room and vote. The Senate was just hunky-dory. I was just tickled to death. And I'm not sad that I'm not making all that money because I've been enriched otherwise. I'm better stimulated. And all my other trial-lawyer friends are either...
...most important thing is to make sure we have enough to do things the class wants to do and to make sure that everyone in the class can afford it,” he said...